An Orthodox Yiddish newspaper in Brooklyn has apologized for digitally deleting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton from a photo of President Barack Obama and his staff watching Navy SEALs move in on Osama bin Laden.

The Brooklyn weekly Di Tzeitung — which says it doesn’t publish images of women — doctored the photo in its May 6 issue. In apologizing May 9, it said its photo editor hadn’t read the “fine print” accompanying the White House photo that forbade any changes. The newspaper said it has sent its “regrets and apologies” to the White House and the Department of State.

A second woman, Counterterrorism Director Audrey Tomason, also was deleted from the photo.

Di Tzeitung said it has a “long standing editorial policy” of not publishing women’s images. It explained that its readers “believe that women should be appreciated for who they are and what they do, not for what they look like, and the Jewish laws of modesty are an expression of respect for women, not the opposite.”

Di Tzeitung, published in Yiddish, is sold at city newsstands, especially in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Borough Park neighborhoods. — ap